Urban Biodiversity and Nature-Based Solutions in Southeast Asia: Perspectives from Indonesia and Malaysia
About this ebook
In Greater Bandung, Indonesia and Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, rapid urbanization over the last thirty years has resulted in an increase inbuilt infrastructure of approximately two and three times respectively.
A Nature-Based Solutions approach can potentially underpin urban design and planning strategies in Greater Bandung and Greater Kuala Lumpur, as well as other cities in Southeast Asia, to address biodiversity conservation and also global environmental challenges such as climate change adaption and mitigation while supporting well-being.
Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions in Southeast Asia will require knowledge gaps to be addressed, greater awareness, increasing the evidence base, metrics for measuring success, support from institutions and stakeholders, and new and innovative financing.
The urgency of global socio-ecological challenges, in particular the biodiversity and climate crisis, means transformational change is needed in Southeast Asia, for urban, ecological, technical, economic, and social systems, while still supporting sustainable development.
About the author
Alex Lechner is Associate Professor in landscape ecology at the Urban Transformations Hub Monash University, Monash University Indonesia, Jakarta.
Michelle Li Ern Ang is a Research Associate at the School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia.
Juin Yan Ooi is with the School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Nottingham Malaysia.
Badrul Azhar is Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology, Department of Forestry Science and Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry and Environment, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
J. Miguel Kanai is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, England.
Perrine Hamel is an Assistant Professor at the Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Saut Sagala is Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB), Bandung, Indonesia.
